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He wouldn’t have been as compatible with Kristina. Just like I wouldn’t be with any other man.
I’m about to get something to drink when Rai waves at me from across the hall. I wave back, meeting her and her husband halfway.
She’s cradling her growing belly while Kyle holds her arm to help her balance as she hurries toward me.
He’s tall and muscled in a lean kind of way. He has brown hair and deep cobalt eyes that seem bottomless sometimes, almost like there are no emotions behind them. He used to scare me, because even though he has an outgoing personality, it always felt like he used it as a façade to hide his darker, more twisted side.
A side that Rai embraced without attempting to change him.
“Easy, Princess.” Kyle scolds in a loveable kind of way. “You can’t keep walking in the fast pace you’re used to.”
“Whose fault is it that I’m bloated?” She pokes him.
“Mine?”
“Exactly. So stop nagging.”
His eyes gleam with mischievousness. “No.”
She glares at him playfully, then shakes her head. “You’re hopeless.”
“For you? Fuck right, I am, Princess.” He stares at her with a mysterious look that she obviously understands, because red rises from her neck to her cheeks.
Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen her blush. I thought she was stronger than the world and incapable of feeling embarrassment or anything similar.
Seems she only feels that way around her husband. She looks impossibly feminine right now, unlike the tough, take-no-nonsense Rai I’m used to.
She clears her throat, elbowing Kyle. “I’m thirsty.”
“I’ll be right back.” He winks at her, then nods at me. “Mrs. Volkov.”
As soon as he disappears, Rai takes my hands in hers. “How have you been? Are you okay?”
“I’m supposed to ask you that. How far along are you?”
“Second trimester and it’s kicking my ass, I swear.” She smiles. “Kyle is making it more tolerable.”
“I’m glad you have him by your side.”
“Me, too. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without him. Did Adrian help you during your pregnancy?”
“Tremendously. He took care of everything.”
“He seems disinterested, but I’m starting to think it was all a façade. No one would’ve thought he would go against Granduncle for you, but he refused to divorce you, even if it meant saving his life.”
My lips part. “He did?”
“Yeah. Everyone called him stupid, including Kirill, who’s his ally. Me, however? I was impressed. Even Sergei is.”
“Sergei?”
“Yes.”
“The same Sergei who seems to want my head?”
“It’s all an act. If there’s anything my granduncle appreciates more than the brotherhood, it’s loyalty. Adrian showed loyalty to you and was ready to pay for his actions with his life and Sergei didn’t miss that. Give him time and he’ll come around.”
“You think?”
